Tag Archives: Development

Sony have previously announced support for the Android Open Source Project on recent Xperia devices like the Z3, pictured above, but some of the lesser known handsets also released this year missed out. Well, Sony has now corrected this, announcing via the Sony Developer World blog that they’ve rounded out …

If you’re a developer or budding developer looking to make headway into the Android platform it’s more than likely you’re at least familiar with, if not using the Android Studio that Google Announced at I/O last year. The good news is that on the Android Tools website an announcement has …

The creators behind the extremely popular BitTorrent client uTorrent, BitTorrent Inc., have confirmed that they are working on a fully operational (not just a remote control) uTorrent application for Android. While there’s currently no ETA on release, I’m sure a lot of regular ‘torrenters’ are excited by the news. Apple …

Would you download a podcast app that specified it needed permission to read your Gmail? I certainly wouldn’t! But that’s one of the dilemma’s that Shifty Jelly Adelaide Based developers of Pocketcasts have to deal with as a part of their Beta testing that both Lucas and I are involved …

Adelaide based app developers – Shifty Jelly – recently put a call out via their Pocket Casts twitter account asking if there were any owners of the app that wished to assist by being a part of their beta testing. Naturally being one of the biggest advocates of this app: …

So you wanted a tablet but you didn’t want to pay over $600 for some half-assed Honeycomb tablet, even though you love Android to no end, so you instead purchased a $99 (or so) HP TouchPad. Now you’re thinking that the idea wasn’t that great because WebOS isn’t that much …

HTC has just updated everyone on their progress towards unlocking their new device’s bootloaders and it’s looking promising. HTC have promised that in August they will be unlocking the global version of the HTC Sensation, which we’re assuming covers the Telstra HTC Sensation, via a software update. We’re thrilled to …

Here’s so good news for current and future HTC Sensation and possibly HTC EVO 3D owners, your device(s) have been “temp-rooted“. Yes, this is a general viewing site; no, that wasn’t innuendo. “temp-root” is just the term for when a user can gain root access of the device whilst it …

How would you like to turn your existing Android development skills into a Postgraduate Uni qualification? Take a look at the Graduate Certificate in Mobile Application Development from Charles Sturt University. Even if you haven’t got an undergraduate qualification, you may be able to gain entry to a graduate level …

As all the other manufacturers (minus a few such as LG) are headed down the locked up and signed bootloader trail, Sony Ericsson is headed in its own direction. Today their Bootloader Unlock site went live with the full instructions on how to unlock the pesky bootloader on the Xperia …

Update: Further probing has shown bootloader is ‘signed’ not ‘encrypted’. This makes things a little easier for devs to try and crack, but it’s still not ideal. Just last night the Motorola Atrix was rooted, even before it’s released to the general public, but that’s pretty much where the good …

Earlier today Motorola left a blunt reply to a YouTube commenter on their Motorola Atrix 4G video who said that Motorola should easy up on unofficial development and stop using Locked Bootloaders, that reply being.. @tdcrooks if you want to do custom roms, then buy elsewhere, we’ll continue with our …

For quite a while now, Google has ignored Australian Android Devs, and it wasn’t until recently that things started to change. Now even better news for Developers, Google will be holding their first Android Developer Lab in Sydney (@ Google Sydney) on November 5th. The day runs from 10am to …

So you may have noticed there aren’t all that many Apps made by Aussie Developers on the Android Market, and the ones that are there are all free apps. But why is that? It’s because Google does not allow Developers from Australia (and some other countries) to submit paid Applications …

Just thought I’d let you know about the Android Australia User Group. Despite having the same -awesome- name, we’re separate entities. The Android Australia User Group (Link) is all about promoting local Android Developer activity and bridging the information gap between Australia and technology hubs like the United States. So …